Market 2, update 01

Well I don't plan on doing daily updates, but we made pretty good progress today and I love the look of the new doors and feel of the new bathroom we're putting together. It's very spacious. And another thing, if you want to update the feel of your house, you can buy 10 packs of electrical outlets for under 5 bucks, 10 packs of light switch/ electrical outlet covers for 1.99 and a 10 pack of light switches for about 4.99 as well. So for under 10 bucks you can get rid of those old stained or ugly ivory light switch covers with brand new ones. Normally I don't do that on my rentals, but since these were covered with bug crap from a previous infestation, I can't afford to scrub it all off nor have the conscious to just throw them back on. Plus I love white trim and white light switch covers really add to the newer modern feel.

All in all I'm having a blast on this job. The first few weeks were daunting. I always hate starting a new project though. Usually theres lots of repairs and fixes which don't show much for visible progress you have to do, like repair foundations, raise sunken floors, fix wiring and heaters, repair broken floor boards, haul out garbage, etc. But now that all that stuff is done and we're framing, adding new doors, and soon to be drywalling, I'm pretty stoked. I've figured out the reason for this is the feeling of the house is actually changing. So as old ugly carpets and surfaces go away, suddenly I take pride in my new creation, and it only gets better and better as I go as the excitement builds. Then the culmination of it is complete as you clean it up, remove your tools and put the for rent sign up, and then finally exchange the keys for a rent check and some signed rental contracts.

Its a little scary handing your baby over to a tenant, but thats the name of the game. You can only hope that you did a good enough job on it that they will take a little pride in the home and take good care of it.